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The Oil price hike – some useful data

2019 09 16 8 09 02

This morning we woke to an overnight oil price spike.  While politicians politic and primp for the cameras, the rest of us will try to figure out what this means and what might happen next.  Here’s some data to help…

Who is the slowest on them all?

2019 08 21 17 29 59

The US DoT’s On-Time database is a great place to mine for information on how effective airlines are at managing their business.  After all, the core of what airline’s sell is their schedule.  Airlines require customers pay 100 cents on…

Tight margins at US airlines

2019 07 18 8 33 58

That the US airline industry is competitive is well established.  Even in a consolidated field, the few fight for every customer.  We decided to look at just how hard are they competing.  Using several data sources, we built a model. …

More on US airline delay costs

2019 07 15 13 27 11

Our recent post on the costs of arrival delays reported a large estimated number.  Perhaps the number was too big to make an impression. After all airline revenues and expenses are in the billions.  But what we reduce the numbers…

Airbus A320neo family fuel burn numbers

2019 05 29 9 13 54

Yesterday we reported fuel burn numbers which we called “preliminary”.  Today we got confirmation that Spirit Airlines refiled their numbers for 2017, so now we have final numbers. For some time we have been eager to see how the A320neo…